This is lovely! An upgrades system would be really neat - like buying more cores, or bigger memory, or shooting users in the head when they don’t log out after completing five tasks
A game where you are an operating system
Submitted 1 year ago by learnbyexample@programming.dev to programming@programming.dev
https://plbrault.com/blog-posts/i-created-the-nerdierst-game-ever-en/
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Adramis@beehaw.org 1 year ago
TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 1 year ago
This is so cute! Reminds me of the NAND game.
noughtnaut@kbin.social 1 year ago
I thought this would be more like MARS, but turns out to be bare-metal MARS where I'm the scheduler. I'm not saying it a terrible experience, but I am grateful that my day job in IT is more higher-level.
LazerFX@kbin.social 1 year ago
What's MARS? I couldn't find any reference that seemed to match due to... well, the ambiguitiy of the name :D
noughtnaut@kbin.social 1 year ago
Oups, I misremembered: the game is called "Core War". In it, MARS ("Memory Array Redcode Simulator") is the name of a virtual machine that executes Redcode instructions. As a player, you write small programs ("warriors") to be loaded on the virtual machine where they try to prevail while klling off (overwriting) opponent programs.